Sir Walter – the History Man
Sir Walter Scott’s work is little read nowadays, yet everywhere there are reminders of his former status. In the…
My London
Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Anne Chisholm shares with us what London means to her
The Rage of Modernism: Self in the Vortex
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But…
Albert Camus and the Pang of Subjectivity
Between the idea And the reality Between the notion And the act Falls the shadow T. S. Eliot, The…
Man of Sorrows: Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War
Off Manchester’s Albert Square stands a copy of George Grey Barnard’s bronze portrait statue of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). A…
I’m Going Digital – Goodbye, Herr Gutenberg
Edward Lucie-Smith goes Digital with his new iBook ‘100 London Artists’
Ghostly Encounters
One of the most respected explorers of the day shares with us, his ghostly encounters…
A Revolution Turns: A Coup Stalls
Who remembers Muhammad Naguib? His name is most often seen today by passengers on the Cairo underground, which honours…
Revolution in Hungary: A Country still Strangled by Political Corruption
From revolution to revolution, I have watched Hungary evolve over the past half-century. The more dramatic of the two…
‘The Blue Rode Well in the Corn’
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Roland Blythe, Penguin, 287pp, £9.99, (paperback) Mrs. Sullivan, fifty-five, headmistress, feels that ‘people…
The Sound of Painting
Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure The National Gallery 26 June 2013 – 8 September 2013…
Charming Baker – Guerrilla Art *Free
Edward Lucie-Smith writing on East London artist Charming Baker and Guerrilla art
London Calling! *Free
Proms 2013, Royal Albert Hall 12 July – 7 September With this year’s world-famous Promenade Concerts now in full…
The Legend of Livingstone
This year we commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the legendary explorer Dr. David Livingstone, one…
Triple Vintage Bohemia
Poet and Jazz musician writes an essay on seven decades of London Bohemia
The Enchanted Guest of Spring and Summer
When Dorothy Richardson told people in the nursing home in which she died in 18th June 1957 that she…
Where are our Modern Day Ciceros?
Daniel Finkelstein wrote an interesting article in The Times recently suggesting that Barack Obama was a great deliverer of…
Europe: The View from a Homeless Shelter
I finally reached the Berlin Wall at daybreak, just as the lamps above it all went out. By mid-morning…
‘The Remains of the Day’: Ishiguro’s Jamesian Novel
‘Live while you can; it’s a mistake not to.’ -Henry James, The Ambassadors I Henry James was born in…
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